Did Nando's Invent Peri Peri?

But as you might've guessed, Nando's didn't invent peri-peri. Variations of the sauce have been around since the 15th century when the Portuguese settlers in Africa came across the ingredient – an African bird's eye chilli – and made a marinade with garlic, red wine vinegar, paprika and other European imports.

Who invented peri-peri?

Peri peri chicken's culinary origins date to native South Africans' interactions with Christian Portuguese traders, who brought the main ingredient, the bird's eye chile pepper, to Africa from Brazil as early as the sixteenth century.

Did Nandos invent peri-peri?

But as you might've guessed, Nando's didn't invent peri-peri. Variations of the sauce have been around since the 15th century when the Portuguese settlers in Africa came across the ingredient – an African bird's eye chilli – and made a marinade with garlic, red wine vinegar, paprika and other European imports.